A system of practical medicine. By American authors. Vol. 5

by Unknown

⁷⁵ Neurolog. Centralb., 1884, p. 73.

Again, owing to the diseased condition of the vessels, a spinal syphilis may be suddenly interrupted by an apoplectic accident.

In a patient of my own, who was believed to be suffering from gummatous spinal meningitis, there was an abrupt development of violent tearing pains, loss of power and sensibility, and all the other symptoms which are characteristic of meningeal spinal hemorrhage. A. Weber reports a case in which, after doubtful premonitory symptoms, such as vertigo, loss of power on the right side, pressure on the top of the head, and tinnitus aurium, there was a sudden development of convulsions, and death. At the autopsy a syphilome of the right vertebral artery was found with a recent thrombosis of the basilar artery.⁷⁶

⁷⁶ American Journ. of Neur. and Psychiat., vol. ii.

TUMORS OF THE BRAIN AND ITS ENVELOPES.

BY CHARLES K. MILLS, A.M., M.D., AND JAMES HENDRIE LLOYD A.M., M.D.

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DEFINITION.—Under the head of Tumors of the Brain and its Envelopes will be considered all forms of growths occurring within the skull, whether these involve the cranium itself, the membranes of the brain, the brain-substance, or several of these parts conjointly. A large majority of these growths spring from the brain-membranes.¹